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John Geddes

"You know the way of the wind in the night-the desolate alleys my soul takes."

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"You know the way of the wind in the night-the desolate alleys my soul takes."

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"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."

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"Whatever you get out of poetry - take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood."

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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

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"Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity."

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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."

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"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."

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"The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under."

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"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."

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"He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or travelled in the western states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, speaking to high school English classes, stunning middle-class boys and girls (he hoped) with the news that poetry was alive-narcoleptic, to be sure, but still possessed of a certain hideous vitality."

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